ASU offers new virtual backdrops for Zoom
Download one or more ASU-themed virtual backgrounds and show your Sun Devil spirit! Choose from options including libraries, athletic facilities, aerial views of campus and great outdoor locations.
Seager hosts virtual talks on resilient healthcare infrastructure
Topics so far include adaptive capacity, availability of data, resilience engineering responses, and taking a resilience (rather than a risk) approach to COVID-19.
Meet online sustainability senior Samantha Selway
A medical condition forced Samantha “Sammy” Selway to transition to online schooling. It was while she was in the process of doing this that she found Arizona State University’s sustainability
Roseland rethinks sustainable cities amid social distancing
Social distancing raises profound questions for our approaches to sustainable cities. When this is over, we can’t simply “go back.” The world has changed and we must go forward — in the right direction.
Summary of award-winning report released
About the project The City of Apache Junction (the City) has over one hundred mobile home and recreational vehicle parks and subdivisions within its city limits. Many of these parks
NSF CAREER awarded to Arianne Cease
Most CAREER awards are given on second or third submissions. For Cease, the third submission was the charm. Junior faculty interested in applying for a CAREER award should contact the Global Futures Laboratory Research Development Office.
High school students from Chandler receive $50,000 grant
The grant, from ASU’s Healthy Urban Environments initiative, creates a solutions-focused, hands-on learning opportunity for high school students who are developing and testing a heat stroke prevention device.
NSF offers flexibility and policy guidance
NSF understands the effects the COVID-19 challenge will have on NSF-funded research and facilities, and they are committed to providing flexibility to support your health and safety as well as your work.
ASU professor works to mitigate impact of extreme heat in Tokyo Olympics
Sustainability scientist Jenni Vanos and an interdisciplinary team studied air temperature variation at planned Olympic venues and how the extreme August heat will impact athletes, spectators and volunteers.
KE Analytics offers access to new data platform
A webinar for early career researchers will take place on April 9. The session will cover Dimensions data sets, literature reviews, finding collaborators, funding and more.
Future Cities episode 28: Improve our cities through urban ecology
In this episode, we explore the field of urban ecology and the challenges of doing social-ecological research. Stephen Elser (@stephen_elser) interviews Dr. Dan Childers, a professor at Arizona State University
Current Events mini-episode 3: Urban ecology
As their first topic, Tessa Martinez and PhD candidate, Stephen Elser (@stephen_elser), discuss the Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, and how it relates to city life. They then talk about green spaces